Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

This issue is a smoke screen to ensure that the chaos in the health service and the problems in other areas are not highlighted during the election.

I heard in the past few minutes that the north Monaghan Fianna Fáil cumann has decided not to nominate anyone in the north Monaghan council area or the Monaghan Town Council area because the members are totally dissatisfied with what the Government has done. That is hypocrisy at its best. It is a gimmick.

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